[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14904-14906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6281]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 66 FR 1363-1364, dated January 8, 2001) is
amended to reorganize the Division of Violence Prevention, National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete the functional statement for the Division of Violence
Prevention (CE4), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(CE), and insert the following:
(1) Provides leadership in developing and executing a national
program for the prevention and control of non-occupational violence-
related injuries and death which addresses, but is not limited to,
youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suicide,
elder abuse, and child abuse; (2) develops and disseminates policies,
recommendations, and guidelines for the prevention of violence and its
consequences; (3) proposes goals and objectives for national violence
prevention and control programs, monitors progress toward these goals
and objectives, and recommends and develops guidelines for priority
prevention and control activities; (4) facilitates similar strategic
planning activities by other Federal, State, and local agencies,
academic institutions, and private and other public organizations; (5)
plans, directs, conducts, and supports research focused on the causes
of violence and the development and evaluation of strategies to prevent
and control violence-related injuries and deaths; (6) plans,
establishes, and evaluates surveillance systems to monitor national
trends in morbidity, mortality, disabilities, and cost of violence-
related injuries and deaths, and facilitates the development of
surveillance systems by State and local agencies; (7) plans, conducts,
supports, and evaluates demonstration projects and programs to prevent
and control violence; (8) provides technical assistance, consultation,
training, and eipemiological, statistical, educational, and other
technical services to assist State and local health departments and
community-based organizations in the planning, development,
implementation, evaluation, and overall improvement of violence
prevention programs; (9) supports the dissemination of research
findings and transfer of violence prevention and control technologies
to Federal, State, and local agencies, private organizations, and other
national and international groups; (10) in carrying out the above
functions, collaborates with other Divisions of NICIPC, CDC Centers/
Institute/Offices, HHS, other Federal, State, and local departments and
agencies, academic institutions, and voluntary, private sector, and
international organizations, as appropriate.
Office of the Director (CE41). (1) Plans, directs, and evaluates
the activities of the Division; (2) provides national leadership and
guidance in policy formation and program planning,
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development, and evaluation; (3) provides administrative, fiscal, and
technical support for Division programs and units; (4) assures multi-
disciplinary collaboration in violence prevention and control
activities; (5) provides leadership for developing research in
etiologic, epidemiologic, and behavioral aspects of violence prevention
and control, and for coordinating activities within the Division and
others involved in violence prevention; (6) prepares, edits, and
monitors clearance of manuscripts for publication in scientific and
technical journals and publications, including articles and guidelines
published in the ``MMWR,'' and other publications for the public; (7)
prepares, tracks and coordinates controlled and general correspondence;
(8) prepares responses and coordinates provision of materials requested
by Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services; (9)
coordinates international violence prevention and control activities of
the Division; (10) collaborates, as appropriate, with other divisions
and offices in NCIPC, and with other CIOs throughout CDC; (11)
collaborates, as appropriate, with non-governmental organizations to
achieve the mission of the Division, (12) establishes linkages with
other CIOs and national level prevention partners that impact on
violence prevention programs.
Etiology and Surveillance Branch (CE42). (1) Plans, directs,
conducts, and supports research focused on identifying high-risk
population groups, causal factors, and other risk and protective
factors, including psychosocial, cultural, and contextual determinants,
for violence and its consequences; (2) conducts national surveillance
and surveys of violence and its consequences, analyzes incidence and
prevalence data, and monitors trends in violence and its trajectory
across the lifespan; (3) identifies research findings and technologies
that have potential to prevent or control violence and its
consequences; (4) assists State and local health agencies to establish
violence surveillance systems and to utilize surveillance data to
describe the state or local burden of violence; (5) designs and
conducts other etiologic and epidemiologic research that contributes to
scientific knowledge regarding violence; (6) monitors activities of
contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants to ensure operational
objectives are being met; (7) provides information on violence
surveillance and epidemiology to the scientific community and the
general public through publications and presentations that include, but
are not limited to, quantitative syntheses; (8) works with other
branches to stimulate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of
intervention and prevention strategies; (9) provides leadership and
expands collaborations with other Federal, State, local, voluntary,
professional and international organizations in all aspects of
surveillance and etiologic research activities of violence and its
consequences.
Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch (CE43). (1) Plans,
directs, conducts, and supports applied research focused on the
development and evaluation of strategies and interventions to prevent
violence-related injuries and deaths; (2) develops and evaluates
methodologies for conducting program evaluation; (3) evaluates the
effectiveness, costs, and impact of violence prevention interventions,
strategies, policies, and programs as practiced or implemented by
public health agencies and organizations at the national/regional and
state/local levels; (4) uses research findings to develop and improve
the impact of interventions to reduce risk factors for violent behavior
and its consequences; (5) assesses socioeconomic, educational, and
other factors for use in targeting and evaluating prevention programs;
(6) collaborates in the application of evaluation findings and
techniques to the ongoing assessment and improvement of violence
prevention and control programs; (7) conducts research activities that
include economic evaluations of violence prevention, including
assessment of alternative prevention strategies to encourage the best
use of prevention resources; (8) applies evaluation methods to improve
violence prevention activities, including serving as a resource to
other branches, grantees, and prevention partners in the development of
methods to support systematic assessment and continuous improvement of
violence prevention programs; (9) monitors activities of contracts,
cooperative agreements, and grants to ensure operational objectives are
being met; (10) works with other branches to stimulate etiologic
research, surveillance, and programmatic activities; (11) contributes
to the intervention research literature by publishing regularly in
peer-reviewed journals and CDC-sponsored publications that include, but
are not limited to, the synthesis of the implementation and evaluation
of violence prevention and intervention strategies; (12) collaborates
with other components within CDC and HHS and other Federal agencies,
national professional, voluntary and philanthropic organizations and
international agencies.
Program Implementation and Dissemination Branch (CE44). (1)
Provides programmatic leadership and support for violence prevention
and control programs at the state, local, and community levels through
the development and dissemination of policies, recommendations, and
guidelines for the prevention of violence and its consequences; (2)
conducts research to examine the processes and factors that influence
effective and efficient translation, diffusion, and sustainability of
intervention research findings to violence prevention programs; (3)
works with other Division branches to synthesize, translate, and
disseminate research findings applicable to violence prevention program
managers, practitioners, and policy-makers through training,
conferences, newsletters, and other means; (4) provides technical
consultation, support, and services to national, State, and local
health agencies, and non-governmental organizations to plan, develop,
and implement violence prevention programs and to evaluate the overall
quality and effectiveness of prevention activities; (5) assesses
training and technical assistance needs and develops strategies to
address the training of grantee organizations, other external partners
involved in violence prevention programs and activities, and Division
staff; (96) monitors, tracks, and assesses program activities in state-
based violence prevention programs; (7) develops and maintains liaison
and collaborative relationships with professional, community,
international, and voluntary agencies involved in violence prevention
and control activities; (8) provides linkages between health department
violence programs and other governmental and non-governmental agencies,
and managed care community or private medical sector to enhance and
evaluate violence prevention services in public and private health care
delivery systems; (9) monitors activities of contracts, cooperative
agreements, and grants to ensure operational objectives are being met;
(10) produces and provides scientific, statistical, visual, and
technical information and materials on violence prevention for
dissemination to health care professionals, public health officials,
prevention partners, the media,
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and the general public, through publications, newsletters,
bibliographies, press releases, public service announcements, and other
electronic and printed materials; (11) maintains a specialized
collection of violence resources that includes subject files and
reprints of CDC-authored publications and ``MMWR'' articles; (12) works
closely with relevant offices or groups, including the NCIPC Office of
Communication Resources and the CDC Office of Communication, to secure
appropriate clearance of materials; (13) implements national violence
prevention public information programs and assists in developing
strategic communications activities and services at the national level
to inform and educate the American public about violence, especially
people who are at greatest risk.
Dated: March 5, 2001.
Jeffrey P. Koplan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 01-6281 Filed 3-13-01; 8:45 am]
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